Digitising quality you can see — automatic and by hand

Auto-digitize — logo in, stitches out

• Colours matched the way the textile trade matches them — every colour in your artwork takes the nearest thread on your chart, as the eye sees colour, so a red stays a red.
• Messy artwork, cleaned first — JPEG marks and scanner specks are removed before a single stitch is placed.
• Thin lines stay crisp — a narrow stroke becomes one clean running line, not a ragged fill.
• The background goes, your logo’s whites stay — and one click empties any white you want gone.
• Satin or fill, chosen like a digitiser would — columns up to 7 mm become satin, wider areas a fill with the right underlay.
• Fills that catch the light — rows laid on a clean diagonal, the underlay crossed beneath them so the two mesh.

By hand, and in every satin the app makes

• Satin columns cut along every stroke — joints where strokes meet, pivots at the corners, small pieces at the sharpest points.
• No gaps at the joins — each column carries on under the one it meets, and a closed letter such as an O laps its own start.
• Smooth curves, no hard ridges — short and long stitches alternate round every bend, on by default.
• The right underlay, chosen by width — a centre run under narrow columns, a zigzag under wide ones.
• Crisp edges on every fabric — pull compensation, and one Fabric give slider for knits and stretch.
• Wide satins that stay flat — switch a column to Wide satin and every bar is split, so no stitch is too long to lie down.
• Machine-safe files — over-long stitches broken to the machine’s limit, needle strikes removed in one click.
• Clean backs — travel is walked under later stitching wherever it can hide, instead of being trimmed.

Lettering in any font on your computer — straight, arched, vertical or along a path.

Picture Thread (P+ and PRO) — turn a photo into a stitched portrait.

The Business Planner, free in every level — orders, clients, products, stock, invoices and expenses.